A family's fight for his baby who was erroneously declared dead
Our babies were precious,” says Ashish Kumar, father of the twin babies born at Delhi's Max Super Speciality Hospital in Shalimar Bagh on November 30. Kumar, 25, says his wife Varsha had conceived after three years of marriage, and the entire family had been eagerly awaiting the arrival of its newest members.
The atmosphere of joyous anticipation, however, soon turned into one of trauma and gloom. The day before Varsha gave birth to the twins, she had been unwell and was taken to Max hospital. “Doctors had told us that my wife was in danger, and that they would have to take the babies out immediately,” says Ashish. Seven to eight injections worth ₹35,000 were also prescribed to raise the survival chances of the babies.
The turn of events after Varsha's delivery—the birth of the twins, one a stillborn, and the other, a boy, showing signs of life but wrongly declared dead initially—led to a huge furore over the conduct of private hospitals and the rising instances of medical negligence.
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